When 50% of the workforce report burnout, the problem is more than a lack of resilience. Here are two unconventional reasons why so many of us struggle with our work-life balance.
Despite making radical technical progress, we remain stubbornly stuck at a 40-hour work week., exhausted, and overworked. Most suffer from a sense of permanent time scarcity. What is more, many have also unlearned how to spend their free time in ways that are energizing, joyous, and meaningful. Sadly, this situation applies to ever more of us, which is evident in the widespread prevalence of burnout and work-related psychological suffering.
Why have our working hours not steadily decreased over the decades, as 19th-century reformers and economists like John Maynard Keynes predicted? Our income levels have risen, our economies have grown, and numerous game-changing labor- and time-saving technologies have been developed. Consequently, our working days should have become ever shorter. And yet, since 1938, they have remained fixed at 40 hours per week. Today, we work only four hours less than we did in 1910.
Also, consider the actual impact of innovations such as cars, vacuum cleaners, and digital communication technologies. Rather than saving us time, they have introduced completely new demands on our time. Because cars cut down travel time, many of us now accept hour-long commutes to work. Whilst vacuum cleaners save us from beating carpets in backyards with flat wooden devices, our standards of cleanliness have risen exponentially as a result of the new technologies available to produce them.
“People gauge their well-being relative to those around them, and luxuries become necessities in a remarkably short period of time when the people around you become better off…Investor Charlie Munger once noted that the world isn’t driven by greed; it’s driven by
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